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Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Built To Spill Mess With Time You In Reverse Warner Bros. Playing in Charlotte on Monday March 10th.
Meat Puppets The Whistling Song Meat Puppets II SST Opening for Built To Spill on this tour...
* Waco Brothers Do What I Say Waco Express: Live and Kickin' at Schubas Tavern Bloodshot
* Born Ruffians Red Yellow & Blue Red Yellow & Blue Warp
* Big Dipper San Quentin, CA Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology Merge
David McComb Country Boy (VA) 'Til Things Are Brighter... A Tribute to Johnny Cash Red Rhino/Rave 3 1988 LP. McComb was part of The Triffids
Johnny Cash Just The Other Side Of Nowhere Unearthed American fantastic Kristofferson song
* Spencer Moore Wildwood Flower Spencer Moore Tompkins Square New debut album from a Virginia octagenarian... (COOL!)
* Gary Louris We'll Get By Vagabonds Rykodisc Very nice new one. It's GL's first solo record.
* Vieux Farka Toure Wosoubour (Chris Annibell remix) Remixed: UFOs Over Bamako Modiba
Orchestra Baobab Ndongoy Daara Specialist In All Styles World Circuit/Nonesuch Famed Senegalese band with obvious Latin influences.
* Cidadão Instigado O Pobre Dos Dentes De Duro (VA) What's Happening in Pernambuco: New Sounds of the Brazilian Northeast Luaka Bop 7th installment in Luaka Bop's very occasional Brazil series. It focuses on the music scene around the NE Brazilian city de Recife. No liner notes available... I have no idea how old this song is :(
Shelby Lynne Just A Little Lovin' Just A Little Lovin' Lost Highway Shelby Lynne is playing at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro on April 10th. This is from her new record of (mostly) Dusty Springfield songs.
* Lynn Williams Don't Be Surprised (VA) Eccentric Soul: The Outskirts of Deep City Numero Group 1969
* Boscoe Money Won't Save You Boscoe * new from *, the off-shoot of Numero Group. New release, that is. The recordings are from south Chicago, early 1970s.
* Boozoo Chavis & The Magic Sounds Uncle Bud (VA) Down Home Saturday Night Smithsonian Folkways
* The Savoy Family Band You're So Easy To Love Turn Loose But Don't Let Go Arhoolie new, excellent pure Cajun
Double Vetiver To Find Me Gone DiCristina
I Might Be Wrong Radiohead College EP (preview of Amnesiac, plus extras) Capitol Thx for the request. Wrong song, but we don't have Kid A in the stacks (which makes me suspect it was ripped off...)
Boy, Was I Mad! Kinski Down Below It's Chaos Sub Pop There is some great rock on here...
* Andrew Bird How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm (VA) Song For America Split Rock A 1919 song, telling the story of post-WWI Americans migrating to cities, abandoning their former rural lives... [this whole comp is songs reflecting American history]
John D. Loudermilk That Ain't All The Open Mind of John D. Loudermilk Omni
Frank Blevins & His Tar Heel Rattlers Don't Get Trouble In Your Mind (VA) Music From The Lost Provinces: Old-Time Stringbands from Ashe County, North Carolina & Vicinity, 1927-1931 Old Hat AWESOME collection of old NC music.
Carolina Chocolate Drops Sally Ann Dona Got A Ramblin' Mind Music Maker
* Demolition String Band Boonanza Different Kinds Of Love Breaking
James Talley No Opener Needed Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, But We Sure Got A Lot Of Love Cimarron 1974
Alan Jackson Pop A Top Greatest Hits Volume II & Some Other Stuff Arista 1990s remake of an old hit by Jim Ed Brown in the 70s. AJ is quite good...
Loretta Lynn & Ernest Tubb I Reached For The Wine Ernest Tubb & The Texas Troubadours: Waltz Across Texas Bear Family